The group that would be known to the hip hop community as A Tribe Called Quest was formed in the city of Queens New York and would get their start in the mid 1980's in a new genre of music called rap. The members Q-Tip and Phife Dawg were childhood friends that would meet in high school to contemplate forming a band of some sort. They would bring on Nico Rey de Castro while after meeting him at school.

A Tribe Called Quest

Cause I got the crazy game and yo, I'm smooth like butter